Testimonies  to 
Foreign  Missions 

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Testimonies  to  Foreign  Missions 


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Hon.  William  Howard  Taft,  President  of  the 

United  States,  1909 — 

Address  at  Carnegie  Hall,  April  20,  1908. 

“Until  I  went  to  the  Orient,  until  there  was 
thrust  upon  me  the  responsibilities  with  reference  to 
the  extension  of  civilization  in  those  far  distant  lands, 
I  did  not  realize  the  immense  importance  of  foreign 
missions.  .  .  .  Now,  no  man  can  study  the 

movement  of  modern  civilization  from  an  impartial 
standpoint,  and  not  realize  that  Christianity  and  the 
spread  of  Christianity  are  the  only  bases  for  hope  of 
modern  civilization  in  the  growth  of  popular  self- 
government.  The  spirit  of  Christianity  is  pure  de¬ 
mocracy.  It  is  the  equality  of  man  before  God — the 
equality  of  man  before  the  law,  which  is,  as  I  under¬ 
stand  it,  the  most  God-like  manifestation  that  man  has 
been  able  to  make.  .  .  . 

“I  am  not  here  to-night  to  speak  of  foreign  mis¬ 
sions  from  a  purely  religious  standpoint.  That  has 
been  done  and  will  be  done.  I  am  here  to  speak  of 
it  from  the  standpoint  of  political  governmental  ad¬ 
vancement,  the  advancement  of  modern  civilization, 
and  I  think  I  have  had  some  opportunity  to  know  how 
dependent  we  are  on  the  spread  of  Christianity  for 
any  hope  we  may  have  of  uplifting  the  peoples  whom 
Providence  has  thrust  upon  us  for  our  guidance. 
.  .  .  I  am  talking  practical  facts  about  the  effect  of 

religion  on  political  government.  I  know  what  I  am 
talking  about.  Foreign  missions  accomplish — I  did 
not  know  it  until  I  went  into  the  Orient — a  variety 
of  things.  They  have  reached  the  conclusion  that 
in  order  to  make  a  man  a  good  Christian  you  have 
got  to  make  him  useful  in  the  community  and  teach 


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him  something  to  do  and  give  him  some  sense  and 
intelligence.  So,  connected  with  every  successful 
foreign  mission  is  a  school,  ordinarily  an  industrial 
school.  You  have  also  got  to  teach  them  that  clean¬ 
liness  is  next  to  Godliness,  and  that  one  business  of 
his  is  to  keep  himself  healthful;  and  so  in  connection 
with  every  good  foreign  mission  they  have  hospitals 
and  doctors,  and  the  mission  makes  a  nucleus  of 
modern  civilization,  with  schools  and  teachers,  a  phy¬ 
sician  and  a  church,  and  in  that  way,  having  educated 
the  native,  having  taught  him  how  to  live,  then  they 
are  able  to  be  sure  that  they  have  made  him  a  con¬ 
sistent  Christian.  Of  course,  it  is  said  there  are  a 
great  many  rice  Christians  in  China.  Doubtless  there 
are.  Chinese  don’t  differ  from  other  people,  and 
they  are  quite  willing  to  admit  a  conversion  they 
don’t  feel,  in  order  that  they  may  fill  their  stomachs. 
But  the  real  fact  is  that  every  mission  in  China  is  a 
nucleus  for  the  advancement  of  modern  civilization. 
China  is  in  a  state  of  transition.  China  is  looking 
forward  to  progress.  China  is  to  be  guided  by  whom  ? 
It  is  to  be  guided  by  the  young  Christian  students 
and  scholars  that  either  learn  English  or  some  other 
foreign  language  at  home,  or  are  sent  abroad  to  be 
instructed,  and  who  come  back,  and  whose  words  are 
listened  to  by  those  who  exercise  influence  at  the 
head  of  the  government. 

“It  is  through  the  foreign  missions  that  we  must 
expect  to  have  the  true  picture  of  Christian  brother¬ 
hood  presented  to  those  natives,  the  true  spirit  of 
Christian  sympathy.  In  the  progress  of  civilization 
you  cannot  over-estimate  the  immense  importance  of 
Christian  missions.  If  in  China  to-day  you  try  to 
find  out  what  the  conditions  are  in  the  interior,  you 
consult  in  Pekin  the  gentlemen  who  are  supposed  to 
know,  and  where  do  you  go?  You  go  at  once  to 


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the  missionaries,  the  men  who  have  spent  their  lives 
far  advanced  into  the  nation,  far  beyond  the  point 
of  safety  if  an  uprising  takes  place,  and  who  have 
learned  by  association  with  the  natives,  by  living 
with  them,  by  bringing  them  into  their  houses,  by 
helping  them  on  their  feet,  who  have  learned  what 
the  secret  of  Chinese  life  is;  and  therefore  it  is  that 
the  only  reliable  books  that  you  can  read,  telling  you 
exactly  the  condition  of  Chinese  civilization,  are  writ¬ 
ten  by  these  foreign  missionaries  who  have  been  so 
much  blamed  for  involving  us  in  foreign  wars.  .  .  . 

“Those  men  are  doing  a  grand,  good  work.  I 
don’t  mean  to  say  that  there  are  not  exceptions  among 
them,  that  sometimes  they  don’t  make  mistakes  and 
sometimes  they  don’t  meddle  in  something  which 
it  would  be  better  for  them  from  a  political  stand¬ 
point  to  keep  out  of,  but  I  mean  as  a  whole,  those 
3,000  missionaries  in  China  and  those  thousands  in 
other  countries  worthily  represent  the  best  Christian 
spirit  of  the  country,  and  worthily  are  doing  the  work 
that  you  have  sent  them  out  to  do.  .  .  . 

thank  you  for  the  opportunity  of  speaking 
on  behalf  of  this  body  of  Christian  men  and  women 
who  are  doing  a  work  which  is  indispensable  to  the 
spread  of  Christian  civilization.” 

Hon.  Theodore  Roosevelt,  President  of  the  United 

States  1901- 1909. 

Address  at  African  Diamond  Jubilee,  Washington. 

“The  change  of  sentiment  in  favor  of  the  foreign 
missionary  in  a  single  generation  has  been  remark¬ 
able.  The  whole  world,  which  is  rapidly  coming  into 
neighborhood  relations,  is  recognizing  as  never  be¬ 
fore  the  real  needs  of  mankind,  and  is  ready  to  ap¬ 
prove  and  strengthen  all  the  moral  forces  which  stand 
for  the  uplift  of  humanity.  There  must  be  govern- 


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ment  for  the  orderly  and  permanent  development  of 
society.  There  must  be  intercourse  among  peoples  in 
the  interest  of  commerce  and  growth.  But,  above  all, 
there  must  be  moral  power,  established  and  main¬ 
tained  under  the  leadership  of  good  men  and  women. 
The  upright  and  far-seeing  statesman,  the  honest  and 
capable  trader,  the  devoted  Christian  missionary  rep¬ 
resent  the  combined  forces  which  are  to  change  the 
Africa  of  to-day  into  the  greater  and  better  Africa 
of  the  future.” 

Hon.  William  McKinley,  President  of  the  United 

States  1897-1901. 

“I  am  glad  of  the  opportunity  to  offer  without 
stint  my  tribute  of  praise  and  respect  to  the  mis¬ 
sionary  effort  which  has  wrought  such  wonderful 
triumphs  for  civilization.  The  story  of  the  Christian 
missions  is  one  of  thrilling  interest  and  marvelous  re¬ 
sults.  The  services  and  sacrifices  of  the  mission¬ 
aries  for  their  fellow-men  constitute  one  of  the  most 
glorious  pages  of  the  world’s  history.  The  mission¬ 
ary,  of  whatever  church  or  ecclesiastical  body,  who 
devotes  his  life  to  the  service  of  the  Master  and 
of  men,  carrying  the  torch  of  truth  and  enlighten¬ 
ment,  deserves  the  gratitude,  the  support  and  the 
homage  of  mankind.  The  noble,  self-effacing,  will¬ 
ing  ministers  of  peace  and  good-will  should  be  classed 
with  the  world’s  heroes.  .  .  . 

“Who  can  estimate  the  missionaries’  value  to 
the  progress  of  nations?  Their  contribution  to  the 
onward  and  upward  march  of  humanity  is  beyond 
all  calculation.  They  have  inculcated  industry  and 
taught  the  various  trades.  They  have  promoted  con¬ 
cord  and  amity,  and  brought  nations  and  races  closer 
together.  They  have  made  men  better.  They  have 
increased  the  regard  for  home;  have  strengthened 


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the  sacred  ties  of  family ;  have  made  the  community 
well  ordered,  and  their  work  has  been  a  potent  in¬ 
fluence  in  the  development  of  law  and  the  establish¬ 
ment  of  government.” 

Hon.  Benjamin  Harrison,  President  of  the  United 

States  1889-1893. 

Addresses  at  Ecumenical  Missionary  Conference, 

New  York,  1900. 

“The  gigantic  engines  that  are  driving  forward 
a  material  development  are  being  speeded  as  never 
before.  It  is  to  a  generation  thus  intent — that  has 
wrought  wondrously  in  the  realms  of  applied  science 
that  God  in  His  word  and  by  the  preacher,  says : 
All  these  are  worthy  only  and  in  proportion  as  they 
contribute  to  the  regeneration  of  mankind.  Every 
invention,  every  work,  every  man,  every  nation,  must 
one  day  come  to  this  weighing  platform  and  be  ap¬ 
praised.  .  .  . 

“The  highest  conception  that  has  ever  entered  the 
mind  of  man  is  that  of  God  as  the  Father  of  all  men 
— the  one  blood — the  universal  brotherhood.  It  was 
not  evolved,  but  revealed.  The  natural  man  lives 
to  be  ministered  unto — he  lays  his  imposts  upon 
others.  He  buys  slaves  that  they  may  fan  him  to 
sleep,  bring  him  the  jeweled  cup,  dance  before  him. 
and  die  in  the  arena  for  his  sport.  Into  such  a  world 
there  came  a  King,  ‘not  to  be  ministered  unto,  but 
to  minister.’  The  rough  winds  fanned  His  sleep ;  He 
drank  of  the  mountain  brook  and  made  not  the  water 
wine  for  Himself ;  He  would  not  use  His  power  to 
stay  His  own  hunger,  but  had  compassion  for  the 
multitude.  Them  that  He  had  bought  with  great 
price  He  called  no  more  servants,  but  friends.  He 
entered  the  bloody  arena  alone,  and,  dying,  broke  all 
chains  and  brought  life  and  immortality  to  light. 


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“Here  is  the  perfect  altruism ;  here  the  true  ap¬ 
praisal  of  men.  Ornaments  of  gold  and  gems,  silken 
robes,  houses,  lands,  stocks  and  bonds — these  are 
rare  when  men  are  weighed.  Where  else  is  there 
a  scale  so  true?  Where  a  brotherhood  so  wide  and 
perfect?  .  .  . 

“The  enemies  of  foreign  missions  have  spoken 
tauntingly  of  the  slowness  of  the  work  and  of  its 
great  and  disproportionate  cost,  and  we  have  too  ex¬ 
clusively  consoled  ourselves  and  answered  the  criti¬ 
cism  by  the  suggestion  that  with  God  a  thousand  years 
is  as  one  day.  We  should  not  lose  sight  of  the  other 
side  of  that  truth — one  day  with  Him  is  as  a  thousand 
years.  God  has  not  set  a  uniform  pace  for  Himself 
in  the  work  of  bringing  in  the  Kingdom  of  His  Son. 
He  will  hasten  it  in  His  day.  The  stride  of  His 
Church  shall  be  so  quickened  that  commerce  will  be 
the  laggard.  Love  shall  outrun  greed.  .  .  . 

“I  have  seen  the  political  spirit  of  this  country 
kindled  to  a  white  heat.  I  have  in  this  hall  addressed 
great  political  assemblages,  but  I  have  never  been 
associated  with  a  political  campaign  where  the  interest 
was  sufficient  to  fill  this  hall  and  three  or  four  over¬ 
flow  halls  and  churches  three  times  a  day  for  ten 
days.” 

Hon.  John  W.  Foster,  Ex-Secretary  of  State,  U.  S. 

Minister  to  Mexico,  Spain,  Russia,  China,  etc., 

Author  of  “ Diplomacy  in  the  Far  East.” 

“My  observation  and  experience  have  greatly  im¬ 
pressed  me  with  the  salutary  influence  of  Christian 
missions  upon  the  nations  of  the  Orient.  The  Pro¬ 
testant  educational  institutions  at  Constantinople, 
Beirut  and  other  places  have  had  a  distinctly  elevat¬ 
ing  effect  upon  political  and  social  affairs  in  Moham¬ 
medan  lands.  The  early  Christian  missionaries  in 


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China  and  Japan  were  of  inestimable  value  as  the 
medium  of  diplomatic  intercourse  between  the  native 
officials  and  the  Western  powers.  And  in  all  these 
lands  they  have  been  the  forerunners  of  commerce 
and  have  created  a  desire  for  modern  learning  and  the 
arts  of  Christian  nations.  Aside  from  their  primary 
work  as  preachers  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ,  they  have 
accomplished  much  for  the  elevation  and  enlighten¬ 
ment  of  the  people  of  Asia.” 

Hon.  Wm.  Jennings  Bryan,  after  a  World  Tour. 

“We  had  an  opportunity  to  investigate  the  work 
done  by  American  missionaries  in  Hawaii,  Japan, 
China,  the  Philippines,  Singapore,  India,  Egypt, 
Palestine  and  Turkey.  We  met  representatives  of 
nearly  all  the  churches  in  the  various  departments 
of  missionary  work,  and  as  a  result  of  our  observa¬ 
tions  our  interest  in  foreign  missions  has  been  quick¬ 
ened.  .  .  . 

“That  our  missionaries  often  make  mistakes  need 
not  be  denied.  They  are  human,  and  to  err  is  the 
lot  of  all.  A  missionary  among  strangers  must  exer¬ 
cise  more  sagacity  and  discretion  than  one  who  works 
among  people  of  his  own  race.  The  wonder  is  not 
that  missionaries  make  mistakes,  but  that  they  do 
not  make  more  than  are  now  charged  to  them.  It 
is  even  possible  that  a  missionary  occasionally  proves 
untrue  to  his  calling.  Is  it  strange  that  this  should 
happen  to  a  missionary  almost  alone  and  with  but 
little  sympathetic  support,  when  it  sometimes  happens 
to  ministers  who  are  surrounded  by  friends  and 
hedged  in  so  that  a  fall  would  seem  almost  impos¬ 
sible  ?  .  .  . 

“The  daily  life  of  a  missionary  is  not  only  a  con¬ 
stant  sermon,  but  to  a  certain  extent  an  exposition 
of  Western  ways.  His  manner  of  dress  and  his  man- 


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ner  of  living  are  noted;  and  even  if  he  did  not  say 
a  word,  he  would  make  an  impression  on  those  about 
him.  It  would  be  worth  while  to  send  Christians  to 
the  Orient  merely  to  show  the  fullness  and  richness  of 
a  Christian  life;  for,  after  all,  the  example  of  an 
upright  person,  living  a  life  of  service  according  to 
the  Christian  ideas,  is  more  eloquent  than  any  ser¬ 
mon — it  is  the  unanswerable  argument  in  favor  of 
our  religion.  .  .  . 

“Why  spend  money  on  foreign  missions?  If  the 
Oriental  is  happy  in  his  idolatry  or  in  his  worship  of 
God  through  other  religious  forms,  why  disturb  him? 
These  questions  may  be  answered  in  various  ways, 
but  one  answer  will  suffice  for  the  purpose  of  this 
article.  The  Christian  ideal  of  life  is  the  highest 
ideal.  If  the  Christian  ideal  is  worthy  to  be  followed 
in  America,  it  is  worthy  to  be  presented  in  every  land ; 
and  experience  has  shown  that  it  is  an  ideal  capable 
of  being  made  universal,  for  it  has  commended  itself 
to  people  of  every  clime  and  of  every  tongue.  .  .  . 

“Making  due  allowance  for  the  frailty  of  human 
nature  and  for  the  mistakes  which  all  are  liable  to 
make,  it  may  be  said  without  fear  of  successful  con¬ 
tradiction  that  the  missionaries,  physicians  and  teach¬ 
ers  who  consecrate  themselves  to  the  advancement  of 
Asia’s  millions  along  Christian  lines  are  as  high- 
minded,  as  heroic,  as  self-sacrificing,  and,  considering 
the  great  destiny  of  the  race,  as  useful  as  any  equal 
number  of  men  and  women  to  be  found  in  any  other 
part  of  the  world.” 

Col.  Chas.  Denby,  for  Tzvelve  Years  United  States 

Minister  to  China. 

“I  made  a  study  of  mission  work  in  China.  On 
a  man-of-war  I  visited  almost  every  open  port  in 
China.  At  each  place  I  inspected  every  mission  sta- 


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tion.  I  saw  the  missionaries  in  their  homes.  I,  un¬ 
qualifiedly  and  in  the  strongest  language  that  tongue 
can  utter,  give  to  these  men  and  women,  who  are 
living  and  dying  in  China  and  in  the  Far  East,  my 
full  and  unadulterated  commendation.  Believe  no¬ 
body  when  he  sneers  at  the  missionaries.  .  .  . 

"My  acquaintance  with  missionaries  of  all  de¬ 
nominations  in  China  has  taught  me  that  they  are 
doing  good  to  humanity.  They  are  the  forerunners 
of  commerce  and  diplomacy;  they  are  pioneers  of 
progress.  They  blaze  the  way  for  art  and  science 
and  sound  morality.  The  best  men  and  the  best  in¬ 
tellects  among  foreigners  in  China  respect  and  esteem 
them.  I  have  done  my  best  to  protect  them,  to  ex¬ 
tend  their  influence  here  and  at  home,  because  I  know 
that  they  are  honest,  industrious,  unselfish,  and  that, 
while  their  main  object  is  to  save  human  souls,  col¬ 
laterally  and  necessarily  they  benefit  civilization  as 
much  as  they  advance  the  cause  of  true  religion.” 

Hon.  Edwin  H.  Conger,  U.  S.  Minister  to  China. 

Address  at  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  May  16,  1906. 

"When  the  first  missionaries  were  sent  out  from 
the  United  States  to  foreign  lands,  had  I  been  on 
the  ground  I  should  probably  have  advised  against  the 
taking  of  such  a  step.  But  time,  history,  and  the 
progress  of  the  good  work  have  demonstrated  that 
the  promoters  of  the  enterprise  were  right,  and  I 
am  glad  to  acknowledge  my  change  of  heart,  and  my 
cordial  and  unreserved  endorsement  of  such  efforts. 

"It  is  no  longer  to  be  questioned  that  mission 
work  was  needed  wherever  on  the  globe  the  Gospel 
was  unknown.  That  the  results  of  this  work  have 
everywhere  been  successful  and  encouraging  is  a 
statement  approved  and  attested  by  every  one  who 


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has  thoroughly  and  without  prejudice  investigated  the 
work  of  any  mission  field  in  any  part  of  the 
world.  .  .  . 

“For  several  years  I  was  most  intimately  asso¬ 
ciated  with  the  American  missionaries  in  China,  and 
I  take  genuine  pleasure  and  pride  in  certifying  to  all 
the  world,  and  particularly  to  you  who  support  and 
stand  behind  them,  that  they  are  a  body  of  men  and 
women,  who,  measured  by  the  good  they  do,  by  the 
sacrifices  they  make,  the  trials  they  endure,  and  the 
risks  they  take,  are  veritable  heroes ;  whose  absolutely 
unselfish  devotion  to  humanity  is  surpassed  nowhere 
upon  the  face  of  the  earth.  They  are  the  pioneers  in 
all  that  land.  They  are  invariably  the  forerunners 
and  forebearers  of  all  that  is  best  in  Western  civili¬ 
zation.  .  .  . 

“According  to  my  judgment,  there  never  has 
been  in  the  history  of  foreign  missionary  work  a 
more  opportune  time  for  earnest  effort  than  the 
present,  nor  a  moment  which  gave  such  promise  of 
an  early  day  of  glorious  fruition;  and  it  is  the  high 
duty  of  every  believer  of  Christ’s  teaching,  and  of 
every  lover  of  his  fellow-men,  to  help  it  along.” 

Admiral  Belknap,  of  the  United  States  Navy. 

“I  assert  it  to  be  a  fact  beyond  contradiction  that 
there  is  not  a  ruler,  official,  merchant,  or  any  other 
person  from  emperors,  viceroys,  judges,  governors, 
counsellors,  generals,  ministers,  admirals,  merchants, 
and  others,  down  to  the  lowest  coolies  in  China  and 
Japan,  Siam  and  Korea,  who,  in  their  associations  or 
dealings  with  their  fellow-men  in  that  quarter  of  the 
globe,  are  not  indebted  every  day  of  their  lives  to 
the  work  and  achievements  of  the  American  mission¬ 
aries.” 


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Hon.  John  Wanamaker,  Ex-Postmaster-General  U. 

S.  A.,  Merchant  Prince  and  Philanthropist. 

“By  personal  contact  with  the  work  and  work¬ 
ers,  I  convinced  myself  that  the  work  of  missionaries, 
clergymen,  teachers,  doctors  and  Christian  helpers 
was  healthy,  eminently  practicable  and  well  admin¬ 
istered.” 

Jesse  Seligman,  Jewish  Banker  and  Trader ,  New 

York. 

“I  am  glad  to  inform  you  that  the  American  mis¬ 
sionaries  all  along  the  Nile  are  doing  splendid  work. 
You  can  scarcely  enter  a  town  or  village  without  find¬ 
ing  one  of  these  nicely  constructed  school-houses, 
where  the  Arabs  are  taught,  and  it  would  astonish 
you  to  hear  with  what  pride  they  say  they  were 
taught  at  the  American  mission  school.” 

Amos  P.  Wilder,  American  Consul  General,  Shanghai. 

“I  am  convinced  that  the  missionary  compounds 
dotting  the  Empire  of  China  are  the  most  potent 
force  for  ‘the  awakening  of  China,’  of  which  so  much 
is  said  and  written.  It  is  from  them  that  knowledge 
of  foreign  ways  and  thought  is  disseminated  among 
the  common  people — certainly  the  knowledge  we 
would  have  the  Chinese  attain.  In  the  coast  parts 
there  is  much  reckless  living  by  foreigners ;  much  dis¬ 
regard  of  the  native  and  irresponsibility  as  to  what 
impressions  they  derive  as  to  customs  and  standards 
among  the  Christian  nations.  But  in  the  missionary 
compounds,  and  in  the  church,  school  and  hospital 
attached  thereto,  the  Chinese  see  us  at  our  best.  Kind¬ 
ness,  sympathy,  unselfishness  are  exemplified ;  the 
home  life  of  the  missionaries,  the  deference  to  women, 
the  intelligent  care  of  children?  the  neatness,  serenity 


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and  devoutness  in  the  family  group  make  their  im¬ 
pression  on  all  the  native  community.  Each  com¬ 
pound  is  an  object-lesson  in  right  living,  in  well-or¬ 
dered,  dignified  and  ambitious  homes.  These  things 
are  imitated  in  the  homes  of  the  native  convert. 
Cleanliness,  sanitation,  neatness,  quiet  consideration 
for  others,  their  ideals  are  communicated  to  great 
numbers.  And  how  great  is  the  need  of  these  things 
is  not  realized  by  our  Americans  at  home;  only  a  visit 
to  a  howling  pagan  interior  city  can  make  it  clear. 
The  fact  is,  so  much  has  been  said,  even  by  mission¬ 
aries,  of  the  good  qualities  of  the  Chinese,  that  there 
is  a  misapprehension  in  America  as  to  the  sorry,  sor¬ 
did,  uncleanly  and  unprogressive  character  of  Chinese 
community  life,  in  city  and  village  alike.  They  need 
ideals  of  improved  living.  Where  else  can  these  be 
obtained  save  from  the  missionary  group?  Com¬ 
merce,  railroads,  diplomacy  fail  at  this  point ;  the  bet¬ 
terment  can  be  only  by  personal  association  in  the 
day’s  routine,  and  only  missionaries  are  willing  to  do 
this  in  the  interior  of  China,  where  the  mass  of  the 
people  are. 

“Chinese  education  traces  to  missionary  influence 
exclusively ;  and  in  higher  education  in  China  the 
United  States  has,  and  is,  leading.  The  great  men  of 
the  Empire  to-day  in  the  main — one  could  name  them 
— the  twenty  who  speak  English  and  are  prominent 
in  government  at  home  and  abroad  and  in  the  rail¬ 
road,  telegraph  and  allied  activities,  trace  back  to 
missionary  influence.  It  was  in  a  Church  of  Eng¬ 
land  school  in  Hongkong  that  Wu  Ting  Fang  got  his 
impulse  to  a  large  career.  The  Christian  homes  of 
Massachusetts  and  Connecticut — in  alliance  with  mis¬ 
sionaries  in  China — took  interest  in  the  North  who 
came  to  America  in  the  seventies  and  eighties ;  and 
the  family  prayers  of  those  homes  left  their  mark 


American  Statesmen  and  Business  Men. 


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on  these  men  of  present  power  in  the  Chinese  Em¬ 
pire.  The  men  and  women  who  speak  flippantly  of 
missions  do  not  know  Chinese  modern  history. 

“Looking  at  it  profoundly,  to  those  who  believe 
that  out  of  the  heart  are  the  issues  of  life,  the  supreme 
service  to  China  is  to  set  up  Christian  ideals — those 
ideals,  principles,  institutions  and  customs  that  have 
made  great  England,  Germany  and  the  United  States. 
Thus  are  shaped  the  lines  of  the  North  of  China; 
and  they  in  turn  will  exploit  the  mines  and  build  the 
railroads  and  improve  agriculture  and  uplift  the  judi¬ 
ciary,  revise  the  currency  and  make  government  effi¬ 
cient  and  honest.” 

Hon.  D.  F.  Wilber,  American  Consul  General, 

Kobe,  Japan. 

“While  representing  my  Government  as  a  con¬ 
sular  officer  in  the  West  Indies,  I  received  a  cable¬ 
gram  notifying  me  of  my  appointment  as  Consul- 
General  at  Singapore.  One  of  the  first  duties  was 
to  inquire  into  and  ascertain  the  personnel  and  num¬ 
ber  of  the  American  colony.  I  found  it  was  two- 
thirds  missionaries.  I  had  no  sooner  found  this  than 
I  ran  up  against  the  missionary  critic.  I  heard  from 
this  person  this  charge  and  that  charge  against  the 
missionary.  I  made  up  my  mind  I  would  personally 
investigate  and  ascertain  as  to  the  truth  of  the  charges 
made.  I  took  my  time  about  it.  I  watched  the  mis¬ 
sionaries  in  their  outward  life;  I  watched  them  in 
their  home  life;  I  watched  their  work;  and  after 
months  of  thorough  investigation  I  learned  to  my 
great  satisfaction  that  each  and  every  charge  made 
against  the  missionary  was  false  and  malicious  in 
every  particular.  I  did  not  go  to  the  Far  East  as  a 
bird  of  passage,  a  travelling  tourist,  or  a  sea  captain ; 
I  went  there  as  a  permanent  resident,  and  I  was 


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one  of  the  kind  that  did  not  accept  everything  I  heard 
without  first  proving  it  by  investigation. 

“About  a  year  and  a  half  after  we  were  there, 
Dr.  West  came  and  urged  us  to  attend  the  little  Malay 
Church,  built  more  especially  for  the  Straits  Chinese. 
We  selected  the  evening  service,  and  as  we  started 
out  from  the  Rafiles  Hotel,  where  we  resided,  we 
rode  in  and  out  along  the  streets  through  a  mass  of 
dirty,  ignorant  natives,  representatives  of  almost  every 
non-Christian  country  in  the  world — the  raw  material 
with  which  the  missionary  has  to  deal — and  as  we 
came  to  that  little  church  on  Victoria  Road,  I  will 
never  forget  the  scene  that  greeted  our  eyes.  What 
a  transformation !  As  we  entered  the  little  church 
we  saw  before  us  the  finished  product  of  the  mis¬ 
sionary.  On  the  right  and  in  the  center  aisle  were 
the  Chinese  men  and  boys  dressed  in  spotless  white, 
the  dress  of  the  tropics,  a  clean,  bright,  intelligent 
lot ;  on  the  left  were  the  Chinese  women  and  girls ; 
and,  to  our  astonishment,  at  the  organ  there  presided 
a  young  Chinese  lad ;  and,  to  our  utter  amazement 
(knowing  it  to  be  an  English  service),  in  the  pulpit 
stood  the  pastor,  Mr.  Ah  Loh.  That  young  man  that 
night  preached  one  of  the  most  powerful  sermons  in 
the  English  language  that  I  ever  heard  delivered  from 
any  pulpit  in  my  life.  Such  is  the  finished  product 
of  the  missionary. 

“About  two  years  after  we  had  arrived  there, 
and  after  studying  the  missionary  in  his  life  and  work 
further,  and  noting  the  true,  sincere,  Christian  char¬ 
acter  displayed  by  them  at  all  times  and  under  all 
circumstances,  and  the  sincerity  of  the  Christian  na¬ 
tives — who  will  often  put  you  and  me  to  shame — I 
made  up  my  mind,  after  being  under  deep  conviction 
for  a  long  time,  that  if  God  could  make  such  a 
finished  product  out  of  the  raw  material  I  saw  there 


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in  Singapore,  He  could  make  something  out  of  me, 
and  I  then  and  there  cast  my  burden  at  the  foot  of 
the  Cross,  humbly  repentant,  surrendering  my  all,  and 
gave  my  heart  to  Christ.” 


Statesmen  and  Publicists  of  Other 
Countries. 


Sir  Andrew  Fraser,  late  Lieut.  Governor  of  Bengal, 

India. 

Address  New  York  City,  March  28,  1909. 

“1  have  been  thirty-seven  years  in  India.  I  have 
served  very  many  years  in  two  provinces.  I  have  been 
on  two  commissions  each  of  which  took  me  for  a  year 
over  the  whole  of  India,  so  that  I  visited  every 
province,  visited  nearly  every  native  state,  and  wher¬ 
ever  I  have  served  and  wherever  I  have  visited,  I  have 
taken  care  to  know  tthe  missionaries  so  far  as  was 
possible  in  the  time.  I  have  taken  care  to  inquire 
about  their  work,  to  see  what  they  were  doing.  I  have 
gone  to  their  schools.  That  was  part  of  my  official 
duty.  I  was  bound  to  see  the  education  of  the  prov¬ 
inces  in  which  I  served.  It  was  also  my  pleasure  and 
I  did  it  in  places  where  I  visited.  I  have  gone  to  their 
congregations.  I  have  seen  the  missionaries  preach¬ 
ing  in  the  villages,  teaching  in  their  schools,  treating 
patients  in  their  hospitals,  and  I  have  for  years  been  an 
Elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  have  belonged 
not  to  a  European  congregation  but  to  an  Indian 


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congregation.  I  have  belonged  to  a  kirk  session,  you 
who  are  Presbyterians  know  what  I  mean,  every  mem¬ 
ber  of  which  except  myself  and  one  missionary  were 
Indians.  And  I  have  sat  under — you  who  are  Pres¬ 
byterians  know  what  I  mean — I  have  sat  under  a 
Presbyterian  pastor  who  was  an  Indian.  So  that  I 
know  something  about  the  Indian  congrega¬ 
tions.  .  .  . 

“I  went  out  in  the  work  of  the  Crown,  to  serve 
the  Crown,  and  I  have  served  the  Crown  of  England 
for  these  thirty-seven  years.  But  all  the  same,  though 
you  did  not  send  me  out  I  come  back  to  you  now  as  a 
man  might  come  back  from  a  place  to  which  he  had 
been  sent  to  prospect  and  tell  of  the  possibilities  of  the 
work.  I  come  back  to  tell  you  what  I  have  seen  and 
whether  this  work  is  worth  your  while  or  not.  You 
say,  Is  it  worth  my  while  to  give  my  prayers  to  this 
work?  You  say,  Is  it  worth  my  while  to  give  my 
sympathy  to  this  work?  You  say,  Is  it  worth  my  while 
to  give  my  money  to  this  work?  You  say,  perhaps, 
Is  it  worth  my  while  to  give  those  that  are  dear  to  me 
to  this  work?  You  say,  Is  it  worth  my  while  to  give 
myself  to  this  work?  And  my  answer  is  emphatically 
worth  while.  The  work  is  a  great  work.  It  is  the 
work  which  God  has  blessed  in  the  past  and  I  come 
back  to  speak  of  it  with  faithfulness  and  pride.  It  is 
the  work  which  God  will  bless  in  the  future.  .  .  . 

“It  has  been  said  by  the  Chairman  that  I  might 
be  a  prejudiced  witness  because  I  am  a  believer  and 
because  I  have  given  a  son  to  the  missionary  work. 
I  am  not  a  prejudiced  witness,  because  I  was  once  not 
a  believer  and  because  I  am  neither  a  missionary  nor 
the  son  of  a  missionary;  but  I  am  a  strong,  emphatic 
witness  because  I  am  a  believer  and  because  I  believe 
in  it  so  strongly  that  I  have  given  my  son  to  the 
work.” 


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From  Address  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  March  24,  1909. 

“Having  given  you  some  opportunity  of  judging 
whether  I  am  a  competent  witness  or  not,  I  proceed  to 
tell  you  this,  that  I  throw  myself  with  all  earnestness 
into  the  class  which  believes  in  missions.  I  can  tell 
you  that  I  have  the  strongest  feeling  of  thankfulness 
to  God  for  what  I  have  seen  of  Christian  work  in  the 
past  and  the  strongest  feeling  of  thankful  hope  in  re¬ 
gard  to  the  future,  not  only  because  I  believe  in  the 
promises  of  God,  but  because  of  what  I  have  seen,  and 
of  the  tendencies  amongst  the  people.  .  .  . 

“There  is  one  thing  that  I  know  from  experience 
well,  and  that  is  the  tremendous  development  in  India 
of  Christian  ways  of  looking  at  things  among  the  peo¬ 
ple  generally.  Now  surely  that  is  a  very  important 
matter.  I  have  been  thirty-seven  years  in  India  and 
I  can  tell  you  of  the  way  India  and  her  people  speak 
of  the  providence  of  God,  of  the  intervention  of  God, 
of  God  as  a  personal  friend.  The  way  in  which  you 
hear  people  speak  of  them  now  is  something  altogether 
different  from  the  way  in  which  you  used  to  hear  these 
things  talked  of  when  I  first  went  to  India  among  the 
people  themselves.  The  growth  of  Christian  ways  of 
looking  at  things  is  a  very  strong  and  glorious  result 
of  the  work  of  the  missionaires  in  India.  .  .  . 

“At  the  present  moment  I  am  Moderator  of  the 
General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  In¬ 
dia.  I  was  elected  to  that  office  over  a  year  ago,  and 
the  office  has  two  years  tenure,  because  the  next  As¬ 
sembly  does  not  meet  until  a  year  from  now.  I  can 
tell  you  it  was  with  the  deepest  emotion  that  I  saw 
the  pastors  and  laymen  gathered  together  from  all 
parts  of  India,  who  had  at  one  time  belonged  to  seven 
different  Presbyterian  churches,  but  now  belong  to  one 
Presbyterian  church  in  India,  who  came  together 
drawn  by  the  love  of  the  Lord  and  by  the  desire  to 
advance  the  interests  of  his  kingdom.” 


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Lord  Lawrence,  Viceroy  of  India  During  the  Sepoy 

Mutiny. 

“If  England  had  not  been  afraid  of  confessing 
her  Christian  principles  in  India,  the  Mutiny,  which 
cost  her  £200, 000,000  sterling  and  rivers  of  blood, 
would  never  have  occurred ;  notwithstanding  all  that 
English  people  have  done  to  benefit  India,  the  mis¬ 
sionaries  have  done  more  than  all  other  agencies  com¬ 
bined.  They  have  had  arduous  and  uphill  work,  often 
receiving  no  encouragement,  and  sometimes  a  good 
deal  of  discouragement  from  their  own  countrymen, 
and  have  had  to  bear  the  taunts  and  obloquy  of  those 
who  despised  and  disliked  their  preaching;  but  such 
has  been  the  effect  of  their  earnest  zeal,  untiring  de¬ 
votion,  and  of  the  excellent  example  which  they 
have,  I  may  say,  universally  shown  to  the  people,  that 
I  have  no  doubt  whatever  that,  in  spite  of  the  great 
masses  of  the  people  being  intensely  opposed  to  their 
doctrine,  they  are,  as  a  body,  remarkably  popular  in 
the  country.  ...  I  have  a  great  reverence  and 
regard  for  them,  both  personally  and  for  the  sake 
of  the  great  cause  in  which  they  are  engaged.” 

Lord  Frederick  Roberts,  Field  Marshal  of  English 

Army. 

“During  a  long  career  in  India  I  have  seen  and 
heard  a  good  deal  about  medical  missions,  and  I  can 
testify  to  their  excellent  and  useful  work,  and  that 
they  are  valuable  and  humanizing  factors  and  moral 
aids  well  worthy  of  all  encouragement  and  support. 
.  .  .  The  man  who  is  a  physician  and  able  to  heal 

the  body,  in  addition  to  being  a  preacher  who  can 
‘minister  to  a  mind  diseased’  as  well  as  to  spiritual 
needs,  wields  a  special  influence.  My  earnest  hope 
is  that  medical  missions  will  continue  to  flourish.” 


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Lord  Curzon,  Late  Viceroy  of  India. 

“As  I  look  back  on  the  experience  of  the  famine 
time,  I  do  not  know  whether  more  to  admire  the 
patient  and  uncomplaining  resignation  of  the  native 
peoples — the  sufferers  themselves — or  the  heroism  of 
the  officers,  both  English  and  native,  civil  and  mili¬ 
tary,  to  whom  the  charge  of  all  those  suffering  thou¬ 
sands  was  committed,  or  the  devotion  of  the  mission¬ 
aries — English,  American,  Canadian,  European,  of 
every  nationality,  women  as  well  as  men.  They  liter¬ 
ally  stood  for  months  between  the  living  and  the 
dead  and  they  set  a  noble  example  of  the  creed  of 
their  Master.” 

Lord  Cromer,  the  Restorer  of  Egypt  under  the 

British  Government. 

From  His  Volume,  “Modern  Egypt.” 

“The  missionary,  the  philanthropist,  the  social  re¬ 
former  and  others  of  the  same  sort  should  have  a 
fair  field.  Their  intentions  are  excellent,  although  at 
times  their  judgment  may  be  defective.  They  will, 
if  under  some  control,  probably  do  much  good  on  a 
small  scale.  They  may  even,  being  carried  away  by 
the  enthusiasm  which  pays  no  heed  to  worldly  pru¬ 
dence,  effect  reforms  more  important  than  those  of 
the  administrator  and  politician,  zvho  zvill  follow  cau¬ 
tiously  in  their  track ,  and  perhaps  reap  the  result  of 
their  labors.” 

Sir  A.  Rivers  Thompson,  Predecessor  of  Sir  An- 

drezv  Fraser  in  Bengal. 

“In  my  judgment  Christian  missionaries  have 
done  more  real  and  lasting  good  to  the  people  of 
India  than  all  other  agencies  combined.” 


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Sir  Bartle  Frere,  Formerly  Governor  of  Bombay. 

“I  speak  simply  as  to  matters  of  experience  and 
observation,  and  not  of  opinion — just  as  a  Roman 
prefect  might  have  reported  to  Trajan  or  the  Anto- 
nines — and  I  assure  you  that,  whatever  you  may  be 
told  to  the  contrary,  the  teaching  of  Christianity  among 
160  millions  of  civilized,  industrious  Hindus  and  Mo¬ 
hammedans  in  India  is  effecting  changes,  moral,  social 
and  political,  which  for  extent  and  rapidity  of  effect 
are  far  more  extraordinary  than  anything  you  or  your 
fathers  have  witnessed  in  modern  Europe.” 

Sir  Robert  Hart,  for  Thirty  Years  British  Commis¬ 
sioner  of  Customs  in  China. 

“The  Missionaries  I  have  known  were  all  de¬ 
voted,  hard-working  men,  and  the  good  they  have 
done  in  influencing  individual  life  and  scattering  the 
seeds  of  the  Gospel  message  has  been  real  and  last¬ 
ing.  Many  have  braved  danger;  some  have  died  in 
the  field ;  all  have  done  their  duty. 

“Their  converts,  the  Chinese  Christians,  behaved 
admirably  during  the  Boxer  troubles.  Inside  the 
Legation  walls  they  displayed  their  discipline  and  their 
brotherhood ;  outside,  they  suffered  torture  and  death 
rather  than  recant. 

“Results  may  be  thought  small  compared  with 
effort  and  outlay,  but  the  seed  has  been  sown  and 
the  harvest-time  will  come.  The  yeast  is  working, 
and  in  due  time  the  leaven  will  be  felt  from  the  in¬ 
nermost  center  to  the  outermost  edge.” 

The  King  of  Korea. 

“There  are  many  American  missionaries  in  Korea. 
We  are  glad  they  are  here.  Thank  the  American 
people,  and  we  shall  be  glad  to  receive  more  teachers.” 


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Marquis  Ito,  Late  Premier  of  Japan,  and  Controller  of 

Korea. 

“Japan’s  progress  and  development  are  largely 
due  to  the  influence  of  missionaries  exerted  in  the 
right  direction  when  Japan  was  first  studying  the 
outer  world.” 

Admiral  Sotikichi  Uriu,  of  the  Imperial  Japanese 

Navy. 

From  Report  of  Address  in  New  York  City,  June  10,  1909. 

Speaking  generally  of  the  progress  and  influence 
of  Christianity,  Admiral  Uriu  said  that  the  mission¬ 
aries  had  done  great  good  not  only  by  direct  religious 
teaching,  but  by  laying  the  foundation  for  a  stable 
civilization.  “All  that  is  best  in  Western  civilization,” 
he  declared,  “is  made  possible  by  Christianity.”  He 
coveted  for  his  own  people  the  regenerating  and  stim¬ 
ulating  power  of  Christian  faith.  At  present  the  Jap¬ 
anese  were  especially  in  need  of  religious  guidance 
and  there  was  a  widespread  recognition  of  the  neces¬ 
sity  for  spiritual  help.  Referring  to  the  relations  be¬ 
tween  the  United  States  and  Japan  the  Admiral  ex¬ 
pressed  gratitude  for  the  cordial  good-will  existing 
between  the  Japanese  and  the  missionary  body,  and 
for  the  service  rendered  by  the  missionaries  in  in¬ 
terpreting  the  people  of  the  two  nations  to  one  an¬ 
other. 


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Scholars  and  Travelers. 


Sir  Henry  M.  Stanley,  M.  P.,  Discoverer  of 

Livingston. 

When  asked,  “Do  you  consider  the  efforts  of 
foreign  missions  really  a  success?”  Sir  Henry  re¬ 
plied:  “Yes,  most  emphatically.  It  can  be  shown  to¬ 
day  as  something  marvelous.  The  story  of  the  Uganda 
missionary  enterprise  is  an  epic  poem.  I  know  of 
few  secular  enterprises,  military  or  otherwise,  deserv- 
ing  of  greater  praise.  .  .  .  These  native  Afri¬ 

cans  (Uganda  converts)  have  endured  the  most 
deadly  persecutions ;  the  stake  and  fire,  the  cord  and 
club,  the  sharp  knife  and  the  rifle  bullet,  have  all 
been  tried  to  cause  them  to  reject  the  teachings  they 
have  absorbed.  Staunch  in  their  beliefs,  firm  in  their 
convictions,  they  have  held  together  stoutly  and  reso¬ 
lutely.” 

Charles  Darwin,  Author  of  the  “ Origin  of  Species  ” 

“Descent  of  Man,”  etc. 

“It  appears  to  me  that  the  morality  and  religion 
of  the  inhabitants  of  the  South  Sea  Islands  are  highly 
creditable.  There  are  many  who  attack  both  the  mis¬ 
sionaries,  their  system,  and  the  effects  produced  by  it. 
Such  reasoners  never  compare  the  present  state  with 
that  of  the  island  only  twenty  years  ago,  nor  even 
with  that  of  Europe  at  the  present  day ;  but  they  com¬ 
pare  it  with  the  high  standard  of  Gospel  perfection. 
Inasmuch  as  the  condition  of  the  people  falls  short 
of  this  high  standard,  blame  is  attached  to  the  mis¬ 
sionary,  instead  of  credit  for  that  which  he  has 
effected.  They  forget,  or  will  not  remember,  that 


Scholars  and  Travelers. 


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human  sacrifices,  and  the  power  of  an  idolatrous 
priesthood — a  system  of  profligacy  unparalleled  in  any 
other  part  of  the  world — infanticide,  a  consequence 
of  that  system — bloody  wars,  where  the  conquerors 
spared  neither  women  nor  children — that  all  these 
have  been  abolished ;  and  that  dishonesty,  intemper¬ 
ance,  and  licentiousness  have  been  greatly  reduced 
by  the  introduction  of  Christianity  ” 

Robert  Louis  Stevenson. 

“I  had  conceived  a  great  prejudice  against  mis¬ 
sions  in  the  South  Seas ;  and  I  had  no  sooner  come 
here  than  that  prejudice  was  at  first  reduced,  and  at 
last  annihilated.  Those  who  deblatterate  against  mis¬ 
sions  have  only  one  thing  to  do — to  come  and  see  them 
on  the  spot.  Missions  in  the  South  Seas  generally 
are  by  far  the  most  pleasing  result  of  the  presence  of 
white  men,  and  those  in  Samoa  are  the  best  I  have 
ever  seen.” 

Sir  Edwin  Arnold,  Author  of  “The  Light  of  Asia.” 

“I  admire  and  reverence  those  devout  men  and 
women  (the  missionaries),  and  I  regard  them  as  tak¬ 
ing  to  China  precisely  the  commodities  of  which  she 
stands  most  in  need,  namely,  a  spiritual  religion  and 
a  morality  based  upon  the  fear  of  God  and  the  love 
of  man.” 

Isabella  Bird  Bishop,  Well-known  Traveller  and 

Author. 

“ I  am  a  convert  to  missions  through  seeing  mis¬ 
sions  and  the  need  for  them.  The  missionaries,  by 
their  lives  and  characters,  and  by  the  work  they  are 
doing,  wherever  I  have  seen  them,  have  produced,  to 
my  mind,  such  a  change  and  such  an  enthusiasm  in 


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Testimonies  to  Foreign  Missions. 


favor  of  Christian  missions  that  I  cannot  go  any¬ 
where  without  speaking  about  them  and  trying  to 
influence  others  in  their  favor  who  may  be  as  indif¬ 
ferent  as  I  was.” 

Sir  Harry  Johnston,  Noted  English  Geographer. 

“Wherever  the  missionaries  went  they  collected 
notes  on  languages,  on  ethnography  and  specimens  to 
illustrate  the  natural  history  of  the  countries  they 
visited.  If  there  was  a  mountain  anywhere  within 
reach,  they  ascended  it,  boiled  thermometers  on  top 
and  took  the  temperature  of  the  air.  They  fixed  the 
latitude  and  longitude  of  their  stations,  and  collected 
a  large  amount  of  geographical  information,  which 
very  often  found  its  way  into  circulation  through 
other  channels. 

“The  scientific  understanding  of  Africa  was  as¬ 
sisted  by  their  compilation  of  treatises  on  dying  lan¬ 
guages;  while  the  friendly  relations  of  Europeans 
and  negroes  were  forwarded  by  the  mission  gram¬ 
mars  and  vocabularies  of  living  languages  destined  to 
be  means  of  intercourse  betv/een  black  and  white  or 
between  black  and  yellow.  ...  I  soon  came  to 
to  regard  them  as  men  deeply  versed  in  the  lore  of 
Africa,  and  above  all  as  the  tribunes  of  the  people  ” 


(A) 
(C) 
(C) 

(B) 

(C) 
(C) 
(C) 


3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

9. 


Missionary  Literature  for  Men 


(B)  1. 
(A)  2. 


Samuel  B.  Capen 


(C)  10. 
(B)  11. 
(B)  12. 
(B)  13. 

(B)  14. 

(C)  15. 

(A)  16. 

(A)  17. 

(C)  18. 
(C)  19. 
(C)  20. 

(0  21. 
(C)  22. 
(C>  23. 
(C)  24. 
(C)  25. 

(B)  26. 


The  Uprising  of  Men  for  World  Conquest, 

The  Genesis  and  Significance  of  the 
Laymen’s  Missionary  Movement, 

Missions  and  Civilization, 

Our  Share  of  the  World, 

The  World’s  Debt  to  the  Missionary, 

The  Awakening  Orient, 

“On  the  Square”, 

Methods  of  Enlisting  Men  in  Missions, 

Personal  Impressions  Regarding  Missions.  Dr.  L.  Duncan  Bulkley 
Around  the  World,  Condensed  Report  of  Laymen’s  Commission 


J.  Campbell  White 
Hon.  Wm.  H.  Taft 
J.  Campbell  White 
Robert  E.  Speer 
Robert  E.  Speer 
John  Timothy  Stone 
J.  Campbell  White 


Robert  E.  Speer 
Silas  McBee 
By  Public  Men 
S.  M.  Zwemer,  F.R.G.S. 


Foreign  Missions  and  Christian  Unity, 

The  Layman  in  Missionary  Work, 

Testimonies  on  Foreign  Missions, 

The  Moslem  Problem  and  Peril, 

Modern  Hinduism; 

Does  It  Meet  the  Need  of  India? 

The  Stewardship  of  Life, 

Joseph  N.  Shenstone  and  J.  Campbell  White 
What  Business  Has  a  Business  Man  with  Foreign  Missions  ? 

S.  M.  Zwemer,  F.R.G.S. 


Rev.  John  P.  Jones,  D.  D. 


John  R.  Mott 
Robert  E.  Speer 


The  Urgency  and  Crisis  in  the  Far  East, 

The  Non-Christian  Religions  Inadequate, 

Modern  World  Movements; 

God’s  Challenge  to  the  Church,  John  R.  Mott 

The  Place  of  Missions  in  the  Thought  of  God,  Robert  E.  Speer 
The  Opportunity  of  the  Hour,  George  Sherwood  Eddy 

The  Supreme  Business  of  the  Church,  Rev.  George  Robson,  D.D. 
Prayer  for  Missions,  Professor  Wameck 

The  Great  Commission,  Robert  E.  Speer 

The  Haystack  Prayer  Meeting,  Edward  Warren  Capen 

25  and  50  Cent  Packets  of  Pamphlets 

Packet  of  first  ten  pamphlets  25c 

Packet  of  first  twenty  pamphlets  50c 
Any  single  pamphlet .  5c 


Pamphlets  marked  (A)  25c  per  doz. 
“  “  (B)  30c  “ 

“  “  (C)  40c  “ 


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Special  discounts  when  pamphlets  are  shipped  in  thousand  lots  to  one 
address.  Price  per  100  only  allowed  when  100  or  more  of  one  price  are  ordered. 

"The  Uprising  of  Men,  ”  “  Our  Share  of  the  World  "  and  “Methods  of 
Enlisting  Men  in  Missions”  may  be  had  in  German. 


LAYMEN’S  MISSIONARY  MOVEMENT 

1  Madison  Avenue,  New  York 


